Measuring the scholarly literature a comparative analysis using Webometric and Altmetric approaches

Abstract

Altmetrics has become a key area of research among the scientific community in this newlineday and age. The present investigation aims to measure the scientific and social impact of the Library and Information Science (LIS) literature indexed in the Dimensions database newline(www.dimentions.ai) through the classic and altmetric indicators. The main objective of this work is to gauge the webometric and altmetric features of LIS outputs and to measure the strength of association between citations and altmetric indicators. Furthermore to explore the Mendeley readership characteristics in terms of geography, discipline and occupation-wise of newlineLIS outputs. The study also aims to find an answer to the long-standing question of whether open access affects citations and social media attention for the LIS literature. newlineTo reach these objectives, two phases of data collection were conducted. In the first newlinephase, Altmetric Explorer was accessed to get social media attention for the LIS literature. To do so, the subject query for Library and Information Studies was carried out after setting a few refinement parameters. In the second phase, Mendeley bookmarking/readership metrics were extracted by using a Webometric Analyst professional version. newlineThe result of this investigation reveals that 31867 pieces of literature were tracked by newlineExplorer for the quotLISquot subject category from 1889 to 2022, and a sum of 521000 citations and 178980 altmetric scores were accounted for them. LIS outputs were mentioned mainly on newlineseventeen platforms, including News, Blog, Policy, Patent, Twitter, Peer review, Weibo, newlineFacebook, Wikipedia, Google+, LinkedIn, Reddit, Pinterest, F1000, QandA, Video and newlineMendeley. Among the LIS journals, articles published in quotScientometricsquot got the highest newlinedigital reach.